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  How is the life of organisms living in water affected when water gets polluted?

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                  Addition of undesirable chemicals like pesticides, fertilisers, industrial wastes and domestic wastes not only kill the aquatic organisms, they also cause water- borne diseases. With the addition of pollutants, the phytoplankton and other organisms require more oxygen for their degradation, thus decreasing the amount of oxygen available in water. Due to this reduction in the dissolved oxygen in water, there are adverse effects on the aquatic organisms leading to their deaths.